Azure Cosmos DB is the next generation globally distributed multi model database from Microsoft. Cosmos DB has been built from scratch in mind with efficient global distribution and horizontal scalability aspects as the core. Azure Cosmos DB guarantees single-digit-millisecond latencies at the 99% availability across the world with Enterprise Level SLAs. Offers a set of… Continue reading
Category: Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, as with the electricity grid.
Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, Service-oriented architecture and utility computing. Details are abstracted from consumers, who no longer have need for expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure “in the cloud” that supports them.[1] Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources.[2][3] It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computing sites provided by the Internet.[4] This frequently takes the form of web-based tools or applications that users can access and use through a web browser as if it were a program installed locally on their…
IoT Central–Microsoft’s SaaS solution for IoT
Microsoft has today released their IoT SaaS offering for customers and partners called as “Microsoft IoT Central”. IoT Central enables powerful IoT scenarios without requiring cloud solution expertise and also simplifies the development process and makes customers to make quick time to market solutions, making digital transformation more accessible to everyone without overhead of implement… Continue reading
Microsoft Azure IoT Suite–Provisioned solutions for Faster Time to Market IoT enabled solutions
Microsoft Azure IoT Suite Provisioned solutions will help you create your own fully integrated solutions tailored for your specific needs in the following 3 sections. Using these ready to consume solutions will accelerate your time to market IoT(Internet of Things) requirements. Remote Monitoring – Connect and monitor your devices to analyze untapped data and improve… Continue reading
IoT Hub vs Event Hub–A quick comparison
With this article I am trying to provide you a birds eye view comparison of IoT Hub and Azure Event Hub, so that some of you may stop feeling that there is nothing new in IoT Hub. For the interest of this article, I put together a table with side-by-side comparison of some important features/desired… Continue reading
Azure: What are Event Hubs?
Event Hubs is a feature within the Azure and is intended to help with the challenge of handling an event based messaging at huge scale. To be specific it is a Highly scalable data streaming platform. The idea is that if you have apps or devices publishing telemetry events then Event Hubs can be the… Continue reading
Scalability – Scale Out/In vs Scale Up/Down (Horizontal Scaling vs Vertical Scaling)
When you work with Cloud Computing or normal Scalable highly available applications you would normally hear two terminologies called Scale Out and Scale Up or often called as Horizontal Scaling and Vertical Scaling. I thought about covering basics and provide more clarity for developers and IT specialists. What is Scalability? Scalability is the capability of… Continue reading